The 1897 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team represented Iowa Agricultural College (later renamed

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) as an independent during the

1897 college football season The 1897 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Penn and Yale as having been selected national champions. Conference and program changes Conference establishments * ...

. Under head coach

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, the Cyclones compiled a 3–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 40 to 22. There was no team captain for the 1897 season. Between 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.

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